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NANCY

I CAN'T SLEEP --- I FEEL SO GUILTY BECAUSE

I YELLED AT NANCY,

EARLY THIS EVENING!

WHY DON'T

YOU GO IN AND

APOLOGIZE TO HER YOU'LL FEEL BETTER!

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 24, 1939.

THAT'S THE ONLY THING TO

DO!

By Ernie Bushmiller

I APOLOGIZE FOR YELLIN' AT

YOU!

Jel. 28151.

Man Who Made The Wolves What They Are

Professional Football

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Player to a Major During World War

MAJ.

FRANK BUCKLEY

London.

The Wolves! There's a magic about that name nowa- days a magic that once belonged exclusively to the Arsenal.

It spells everything that is new and up to date in foot. ball: huge covered stands, changing rooms that might have been designed in Hollywood, revolutionary ideas in train- ing, gland treatment, and, more important than anything else, a young, virile team right on the crest of the wave, writes Thomas Woodrooffe.

•

Yet only a few years ago people; the man who knew what he wanted were asking: "Who are these Wolves and gol it, the late Berbert Chapman, everybody's making such fuse of Huddersfjekt Town and Arsenal. about?" Eleven years ago, Wolver- Chapman believed in buying ready- a strug made players-he gave £10,000 for hampton Wanderers were

He paid out £9,000 odd gling team in the Second Division David Jack. and, if not hankrupt-welt, not far for Alec James, and got his money off it.

back over and over aguli.

in

Fred MacMurray-as a hard-bolled newspaperman-ahown the romantic arpeet of life on the other side of - Fifth Avenue to lovely Madeleine Carroll-the flower of the upper crust--in "Cafe Society." Paramount's gay_salire on life among the Upper 400. The picture is be- ing shown simultaneously at the Quten's and Alhambra Theatres.

The glory of Wolverhampton as as

Frank Buckley unly belleves football centre seemed to have de- huge transfer fees when he's at the parted for ever, and the pre-war receiving end. Hls method is to get sequence of eighteen years broken players in the raw-make them--and membership of the First Division was then sell-f it sults him. The like a dream.

Wolves' unrivalled financial position Immediately after the war the is largely due to transfer fees re- Wolves had been just for a season in

ceived. the dim obscurity of the newly form Buckley, like Chapman, is ruthless ed Northern Section of the Third and determined, but his methods are Division-they'd got out of that different. He believes in youth on quagmire, but they were still only the field, and, what's more, youth that struggling.

has been taught und moulded to his Then, in 1928. a burly, five-foot- awn design. cleven man in plus fours became

Long years ago he decided that the manager-a brusque, keen-eyed man only road to the top was the one of with a sharp, business-like monner, his own choosing. He would find his His name was Frank Buckley,

own players and and them young Golf Now, after eleven years, Buckley no ready-made reputations for him. has got the Wolves the Cup If any reputations were to be made, Final The overdraft that greeted they would be made under his him on his first day in the Molineux tutelage. He Wanted two-footed ground office is a credit of nearly players with the speed and stamina £100,000, there's no mortgage on the:

of Sydney Wooderson. ground-think of that, no mortgage!

into

He made mistakes--who doesn't?

the gates average over 30,000 But he went on until he got them match, and the Wolves Bre right then he trained them, handled them back on the map.

right and now he'll watch the result of his inbours at Wembley, on April 30.

£2,500 A YEAR

In four years Major Buckley had! The Wolves back in the First Division, where they belong, and they have: never looked back.

HAD TO FIGHT

He has had to fight for his theories. and light hard. He has had his He hasn't done so badly for him-failures, and knows what it feels like self, either. Before the war he was to have the mob parading in front of a professional footballer with Derby the stand and bowling for his head County and Bradford City, carning on a charger.

HE'S A SELLER

LOCAL YACHTING

MIDDLESEX DEFEATED AT MACAO

Clean Soccer Game! At The Canidrome

Macao, Apr. 23.

In the soccer encounter between the Middlesex Regiment and the Murao eleven at the Canidrome en- closure this afternoon, the local team beat the visitors three goals to nil after a hard struggle. The match was extremely clean from start to finish and was enjoyed immensely by the large crowd.

The strenuous efforts of the Middle- sex forwards tested the Macao defence to the utmost and the excellent work of Chlang, right-bock, received well- deserved applause. Atrosa was alert) at contre-half and combined with Cordova to feed the Macao right wing so that Rego was a constant danger to the Middlesex defence. Rego was always a fast worker beating Cooper on several occasions but seldom try- ing a shot at goal.

was

Drake

dependable in the Middlesex goal and the match was so evenly contested during the first perlod tlint the goal from a header by Guerreiro a mute from the interval came as a surprise.

Upon resumption, Bright "was seen to advantage and with Whitehouse and Wilkinson, deprived Collace and Guerreiro of many opportunities, Excitement on high as a splendid' shot by Pearson slipped from Carvalho's hunds and the ball come to a dead halt a foot from the Macao goal. Assis was responsible for the Recond goal following a nent pass and Lopes registered the third.

Teams:

Middlesex Druke;

Thompson,

Cooper: Whitehouse, Bright, Wilkin- son; Moggridge, R. Themus, Pearson, Saw, C. Thomas.

Carvalho: Chlang Sheang-

PADGHAM Corinthian Cruisers Raceching Lobato, Cordova, Alrosa, Nifu

WINS IN RE-PLAY

Won By Norena

Rego, Collaco, Guerreiro, Asis, Lopes Our Own Correspondent.

Norenu won the Corinthian cruisers Baseball race held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yesterday in which two out of three competitors finished the course. Details:

Finished Corrd Pos. 13.55.00 14.10.30 1

London, Apr. 22. Alfred Padgham, of Sunbridge Norena Park, won the Sliver King Golf Tournament re-play at Moorpark to Azuma 14.22.40 14.18.41 2 day, R. Burton, of Sale, retiring at

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This really should be called "The Meeting to be held on Saturday,

Wife," for although it touches briefly

three or four quid a week (salaries; On these occasions Buckley didn't being much lower in those days). bat an eyelid. He knew that his

If he is not transferred by Full Programme. Now he enjoys and fully earns a methods were right. He was going salary of £2,500. He has a life con- to turn this second-rate provincial respective scores for which were 74 the end of the season the player is tract as manager of the Wolves, and team into a rival to the Arsenal. Let

placed on the retained list and gets For First Time on the marital progress of two si6th May, 1930 (weather permit his life has been insured for £10,000 them bowl, They'd be cheering one

Padgham and Burton had tied with jhls summer money.

ters, this sentimental melodrama con- ting) may be obtained at the centrafes on the third. She marries Secretary's Office, Exchange Build- by his club.

of these days. He was right. That an aggregate of 285.

Buckley will always find a man a

" New York, Apr. 23.

drunken

newspaper reporter and Ing; The Club House, Happy same mob now parades in front of

T. Cole of Swinton Park, and C. S.

He expects

perfect the stand cheering Instead of howl-

Thorpe Hall, were fresh start.

suffers with fine For the first time since the current then.

restrain Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the joint third with 280 each..

physical fitness and likes players who

role, Sports Club, and the Stables, LONDON BECKONS

Reginald Whitcombe, the "Open" are anxious to get on and better Baseball season commenced, a full through the whole catalogue

themselves.

programme of matches was played in domestle tragedies. In this champion aggregated 288, and Henry

the Major League to-day, four Bette Davis is given the opportuni- Shan Kwong Bond. Cotton, the Ryder Cup captain. Buckley really hit the front pages

whlic Erro totalled 200.-Reuter.

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON when he took up gland treatment, games being decided in each division. ties for good acting,

Flynn is the drunken reporter, Anita The following were the results: he introduced two sixteen-

Louis, tan

Ian Hunter,

Dick Foran, on Thursday, 27th April, 1939, years-old boys in the League eleven

Beulah Bondi and Donald Crisp are By Order,

: at the same time the first manager

others in the

C. B. BROWN, (Queen's and

Secretary. this

Looking back over the long historying. of Association football in England, there's only one man who has made

He has produced the most prospec- such a mark-the first big spenders club in the history of football in town of only 133,000 papulation. Any manager will tell you that he (the manager, not Buckley), could

GREAT WITH INSPIRED DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES with the dar of "Stella Dalias“

at her greatesti

BARBARA

STANWYCK

HERBERT

MARSHALL

Always

Goodbye

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Woodward, that he just hated drill ever to do so. and above all, polishing buttons

Boston It was he who first suggested num- But Woodward became the chambering players an idea he borrowed .New York If that is so, what could Buckley plon Alills bomb-thrower in the bat- from the Rugby League. He's al- do in London? Bristol and Notting-talion, and soon no one would gownys advocated having old players near him he always had his pockets as referees much as you have old ham have populations three times us large as Wolverhampton, and yet full of bombs.

first-class umpires in Three other present-day managers cricket.

players ou they have quite undistinguished were in that famous battalion Jnek Tresudern, of Plymouth Argyle,

MISERABLE Angus Seed, inanager of the victori ous Barnsley, and Charlie Bell, of Bournemouth, who

teams.

And it is possible that Buckley may And himself in London one day. He is ambitious and a man of action, and he can probably terminate his life contract ut Wolverhampton if he wants to. If the offer were tempt- ing enough-he 'might be the first £5,000-a-year manager-you can he pretty sure that Major Frank Buck- lev would come up and conquer the jespital.

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yarn about a spolied heiress and the reporter who she marries to win a to-day) —A bit too elephanting for bet, expecting an Immediate divorce, three-quarters of the time. Jullen has an artificial taste about It, the Duvivier has managed to slip in a (Drubaker homered for the Pirates treatment is good and the film is few of his characteristically brilliant and Berger for the Reds).

quite entertaining. With the aid of directoral dourishes, but they are her grandfather, the young man mostly overwhelmed by lavish ap- Brooklyn

manages to straighten bor out, though purtenancls.~ Still the music com- Philadelphia

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Is Lazzeri and Comill homered for above criticism, Madeline Carroli

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Murray the MON the reparler. Shiricy Ross Chicago

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If it's a close game at Wembley Buckley's there'll be two very miserable look

ing, gentlemen sneaking away to the WELL HATED

back of the stand unable to stand the strain of watching,

One will be a big, bluff man with Frank Buckley is a complex char-

smailish,

fo-day Buch Fool acter and for that reason he's well a keen, eye; the other

happy, neat little man wearing spats.

Morris) is a fair loved and well hated..

Marty homered for the Cubs and Jimmy (Wayne Bierinly are, He has his fair share of gulle--he One will be Frank Buckley, and the couldn't be a football manager if he other Juck Tinn,, the Portsmouth Medwick and Mize for the Car-example. His wife (Priscilin Lane) tries to mix marriage to him with

difficulties. hcdn't. He is ambitious and tough.manager.

Plenty AMERICAN LEAGUE

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If the Wolves win that Cup after

But there's a streak of kindliness in 31 years it will be due practically Frank Buckley, three-poundṣ-u- | the man. week professional footballer, gained As an old player, himself, he can entirely to the character, ability and the rank of major in the war.

He joined the Footballers' Battalion see the player's point of view; he theories of Frank Buckley,

if they behave loyally and give of their best.

recognise, that players have rights under Colonel Grantham, an old and are entitled to it fair dividend Indian cavalry officer. Buckley was a promising recruit, and finally be cama second la command of the bat- talion when Colonel H. T. Fenwick, D.S.O., took it to France..

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The local offices of MGM have

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Penny Singleton and

of drinking scene.

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help things along.

Herbert Champions for the month of February in the United States Included; two "Holiday" (Majestic, La-day) ----- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions. Excellent new Bim treatment of the "Pygmalion, the Intter an adopta" They were "Idiota. Delight" ... and (Gordon homered for the Yan-Barry play which argues that a Lon of George Bernard Shaw's play.

New York Washington

WIFE HELP'S Frank Buckley owes a lot to his charming wife, a student of pay- kera). As an ex-second in command of echology, who helps, humo glyo in- battalion in war time, he is a strict dividual attention to splayers, disciplinarian. He won't have play- | Her advice has played i „big part in It was in the Army that Buckleyers stirring up sirife or questioning the mental speeding-up which is so learned how, to handle men, and in | palley-whichi, after all. Is none of noticeable about these young Wolves. particular that rather knobbly type the player's business.

Buckley and his wife are a happy

of man, the professional footballer,

Above all, he is fair and his players pair. Their favourite hobby is dog- Colonel Grantham died a year or know they'll get a square deal from breeding and they have won inany two ago at the age of 80, and he often him. For instance, he never leaves prizes with their Welsh terriers and said that footballers were difficult a player up in the air without.sum-black retrievers. material to lick into shape as soldiers | mer wages.

Buckley will go down in history —but they made good soldiers.

If a player he does not want to as the man who found his footballers He used to say of that great intere, retain is good enough and commands in the by,ways and set them on the forward, Vivian fee, he is transferred during the by-pass, to Tame.-- national centre

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his own life pattern are worl more than millioni, yachts, and a town house with an elevator, te gats his freedom and also Katharine Hepburn, offcast daughter of Ein wealthy house- hold. Direction, screen play and acte ing are splendid throughout, Doris Nolan Law Ayres, Edward Everett Horton and Binnie Barnes are principal supporting players.

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